Maryland State Police are investigating after an inmate who was involved in a gold bar scam was found dead at the Maryland Correctional and Training Center in Hagerstown on Tuesday.
Officials identified Wenhui Sun, 36, as the man who died, according to a news release. Sun was serving a 6.5-year prison sentence for his role in a con that bilked almost $800,000 in gold bars from a woman living in the Leisure World retirement community in Silver Spring.
Sun was involved in a fight with two other inmates Tuesday and afterward was taken to the prison’s medical unit where he died, officials said…